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00:24 Live from London, this is The World Today.
00:35 Hello, I'm Jamie Owen.
00:36 Welcome to the program.
00:38 Our top story is the World Health Organization
00:40 describes the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
00:43 as a death zone, as the civilian death toll mounts.
00:47 Our other headlines,
00:49 Argentina sees a nail-biting presidential runoff,
00:52 two candidates with starkly differing visions
00:55 amid a crippling economic crisis.
00:58 And reports of open revolts within OpenAI,
01:03 following the shock sacking
01:04 of the company's trailblazing chief executive.
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01:19 The World Health Organization
01:22 has described Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital
01:24 as a death zone after visiting the site.
01:27 The facility has been under siege for weeks
01:30 with Israeli ground troops entering on Wednesday.
01:33 WHO officials assessed the site
01:35 after most staff and patients were moved.
01:38 They've reported evidence of shelling,
01:40 gunfire, and a mass grave.
01:43 Israel claims it was being used as a Hamas command center.
01:48 Meanwhile, the last remaining premature babies
01:51 who were being cared for at Al-Shifa
01:53 have been moved to other hospitals.
01:55 Authorities say 31 newborns were taken to southern Gaza
01:59 with plans in place to transfer them to Egypt.
02:02 Five of the original group of babies died at the hospital
02:07 after their incubators were turned off when power ran out.
02:12 CGTN's correspondent, Noor Harazine, reports now from Gaza.
02:16 - The humanitarian situation here in Gaza
02:18 has collapsed weeks ago, actually.
02:22 People here do not have any access to clean water,
02:27 no access to food.
02:29 The pharmacies are out of medicine.
02:31 There is no milk, there is no diapers,
02:33 there is no even women's sanitary baths.
02:37 That's why over also the past weeks here,
02:40 the health ministry in Gaza have been warning of a pandemic
02:44 to spread inside the Gaza Strip,
02:46 not only because of the lack of these necessities,
02:49 but also because the hospital are loaded
02:51 with injuries, patients, and also displaced people
02:54 who are taking shelter inside the hospital.
02:58 Hospitals, as I said, the situation here
03:01 has already collapsed.
03:03 Regarding the people in the north,
03:05 we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people
03:07 who are still residing in their homes
03:10 or in UN schools and shelters in the north.
03:13 The UN is not operating there for now four weeks,
03:16 almost four weeks, so these people do not get any
03:20 of the humanitarian aid that enters the Gaza Strip.
03:24 Meanwhile, here in southern Gaza,
03:27 while the UN is operating in some area,
03:29 however, they are not fully providing
03:32 for all the refugees or the people who fled their homes.
03:36 The reason why is because of the lack of fuel.
03:38 Actually, the UN reached a point where they're not operating
03:42 because of the lack of fuel.
03:43 They do not have any fuel, actually,
03:45 to fold the tanks of the cars and buses
03:48 to distribute the aid.
03:50 And as I am talking to you right now,
03:52 actually, it's raining on Gaza,
03:54 and winter, this means that it will add
03:58 to the suffering of the people of Gaza.
04:00 I am inside the Shohada al-Aqsa Hospital,
04:02 and we've seen the tents of those displaced people
04:05 blown away by the wind.
04:07 So these displaced people actually displaced
04:10 without any shelter during this winter.
04:14 Israel says firearms and explosives
04:17 have been discovered by its troops in raids
04:19 on the West Bank.
04:20 Defense forces have carried out what they call
04:22 brigade-level incursions into refugee camps
04:25 in Jenin and Balata.
04:27 Sam Mednick is the Associated Press correspondent
04:30 in Jerusalem.
04:32 Now, Israel is continuing its raid
04:34 on this al-Shifa Hospital, which it believes
04:37 is a Hamas command and control center.
04:39 It is also continuing its strikes in the north of Gaza.
04:42 And it struck a United Nations school on Saturday,
04:46 killing dozens of people in the Jabalia refugee camp.
04:49 UN officials called the photos and the images
04:52 absolutely horrific.
04:53 They've called for a ceasefire.
04:55 Israel, however, is continuing its operations,
04:58 and it is expanding to the south,
05:00 where it was also continuing to strike.
05:03 It had told people to move from the north of Gaza to the south.
05:06 But now there are hundreds of thousands
05:08 of people in southern Gaza.
05:10 The United Nations says that hundreds of people
05:12 are sharing one bathroom.
05:13 They're sharing one shower.
05:14 And people have nowhere to go.
05:16 Fighting has increased in the West Bank
05:18 since this war has begun.
05:20 More than 200 people have been killed.
05:22 Aid workers say that the level of incitement that they're seeing
05:24 is absolutely alarming.
05:26 Israel on Saturday struck what it said
05:28 was a militant hideout, killing at least five people.
05:33 What people are saying who live there
05:34 is that settlers are taking advantage of the situation
05:37 to chase Palestinians off their land
05:39 because they don't necessarily want a two-state solution.
05:43 A lot of people are saying that it's not getting enough
05:45 attention, and that if it continues,
05:47 it could increase and could get wider,
05:49 and that it could also bring more people into the conflict.
05:53 There are reports that opposing armed forces in Sudan
05:56 could sit down for peace talks in the coming weeks.
05:59 The last seven months have seen violent clashes
06:01 between the Sudanese armed forces
06:04 and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
06:07 China has joined a growing chorus of countries
06:09 calling for a ceasefire.
06:11 A Sudanese newspaper says the two sides
06:13 will meet to discuss a resolution following talks
06:16 in Saudi Arabia earlier this month.
06:19 At least 10,000 people have now been
06:21 killed during this conflict.
06:24 Russia has launched a second night of drone attacks
06:27 on Ukraine's capital.
06:28 Moscow resumed airstrikes on Kiev earlier this month
06:32 after a pause of several weeks, causing
06:34 damage to infrastructure.
06:36 Ukraine says most of the Iranian-made Shaheed drones
06:39 were shot down.
06:41 Elsewhere, Russian attacks have reportedly
06:43 caused power cuts across the north and eastern regions.
06:46 Authorities say Ukraine's energy networks
06:49 are under renewed threat as winter takes hold.
06:53 Well, some Ukrainians are leaving Poland
06:56 for other Western countries, which
06:58 is seen as offering a better quality of life.
07:00 There's concern that this exodus could
07:03 damage the Polish economy, which is highly dependent
07:06 on Ukrainian migrant labor.
07:08 Our correspondent Aljosha Malenkovich reports.
07:13 Oleg came to Poland from Ukraine almost a decade ago.
07:18 Together with his wife, he opened a coffee shop in Warsaw.
07:22 Over time, their business grew into a chain
07:25 with 17 coffee shops and restaurants
07:28 across Poland and Czechia, employing over 100 people.
07:32 And the overwhelming majority of them are from Ukraine.
07:36 However, recently, some of them have
07:39 decided that they don't want to stay in Poland
07:42 or go back to Ukraine, but rather look for a better
07:46 future further westwards.
07:49 So far, Oleg isn't too concerned,
07:52 as the numbers are not that high.
07:57 Last year, 10% of our employees told us that they
08:00 wanted to go somewhere else.
08:02 They went to the west to work to make a permanent change
08:05 in their place of residence.
08:07 It wasn't too catastrophic for us.
08:10 Some ended up returning to Ukraine, probably
08:13 a higher number than those who went to Germany or Canada.
08:17 Over 4 million Ukrainians have arrived in Poland
08:20 since February last year, according
08:23 to a leading Polish employment agency.
08:25 That's on top of 2 million people
08:28 who are already working in Poland,
08:30 filling the workforce void left by millions of Poles who
08:34 left for Western EU countries.
08:37 Now, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians
08:40 are following in those Poles' footsteps.
08:43 Around 350,000 Ukrainians left Poland just
08:47 in the first six months of this year,
08:50 around 150,000 of them ending up in Germany.
08:54 For that same period, Germany saw
08:57 its Ukrainian immigrant population
08:58 increase by 410,000.
09:02 And there are several factors, but one
09:04 stands out in particular.
09:07 Definitely financial, obviously higher pay rates,
09:11 access to a benefit system that is more--
09:16 well, it's definitely, from the perspective of financial gain,
09:20 is much better.
09:21 But I think curiosity as well is an element.
09:24 Obviously, money is the main influence
09:27 and the main decision driver.
09:29 If the trend continues, the Polish economy
09:32 could find itself in a difficult position
09:35 with a growing labor shortage.
09:38 And as well as losing valuable workers,
09:41 the country would lose out on those Ukrainians spending
09:44 their salaries, which helps to boost local economies in towns
09:48 and cities across the country.
09:51 Aljosha Milenkovic, CGTN, Warsaw.
09:55 Argentina is going to the polls again
09:58 in a nail-biting presidential runoff.
10:00 The embattled economy minister, Sergio Massa,
10:03 who won the most votes in the first round,
10:06 is running against the libertarian outsider, Javier
10:08 Millet.
10:09 The two men represent starkly different visions
10:12 for Latin America's third largest economy.
10:15 Argentina is battling triple-digit inflation
10:18 after decades of debt, financial mismanagement,
10:21 and currency volatility.
10:23 Well, let's talk to our correspondent, Joel Richards,
10:26 watching events for us in Buenos Aires.
10:28 Joel, these two candidates really
10:30 couldn't be more different, could they,
10:32 in terms of what they want to offer Argentina?
10:41 Jamie, Argentina's today vote between two candidates
10:44 that have highly contrasting visions for the country's
10:47 future, but also highly contrasting interpretations
10:50 of the country's present and its past.
10:54 These presidential elections have
10:55 been shaped by the emergence of the outsider,
10:58 the far-right libertarian Javier Millet, who
11:01 just a couple of years ago was a TV panelist who became famous
11:04 with his air as an eccentric academic who
11:07 would explode in rage as they would debate the economy.
11:10 But since then, he's tapped into deep discontent
11:13 over the country's economic situation, which
11:15 sees poverty over 40%, inflation at over 140%.
11:20 And he's brought radical proposals
11:22 to the table that ranges from dollarizing the economy,
11:26 abolishing the central bank, to privatizing
11:29 public education, public health, public media as well.
11:34 And he also has a different vision
11:37 compared to many other people when it comes to the country's
11:40 past, traumatic past with the military dictatorship.
11:43 Millet and his camp have questioned
11:45 the number of victims.
11:46 He's also questioned the vision of what
11:47 happened during the war over what the Argentines called
11:50 the Malvinas, or the Falkland Islands.
11:53 So that's Millet's vision.
11:54 He's up against the economy minister, Sergio Massa,
11:56 as you mentioned there, Jamie, who's a career politician, very
12:00 experienced, very well connected.
12:02 And he said that only he can guide the country out
12:05 of the economic crisis by finding a broad consensus
12:09 with many other political parties.
12:11 And he said primarily the key is that he would not
12:13 introduce any shock austerity measures, the kind of which
12:17 Millet has said he will do.
12:19 So many are viewing this as the most important
12:21 presidential election in the last 40 years
12:24 here in Argentina.
12:25 Joe, just talk us through the timetable.
12:28 When will we start seeing some results?
12:30 We'll start seeing the results, Jamie,
12:38 at around about 9 PM GMT.
12:40 That's 6 PM local time.
12:42 Sorry, I should say the results will come out 9 PM local time.
12:45 That's midnight GMT.
12:48 This does all depend on what the results are
12:50 and how tight these elections are.
12:52 Across Latin America in recent years,
12:54 we've seen very tight elections.
12:56 And if it is close, then it could require a full recount
12:59 of votes.
12:59 And that could take anything up to a couple of days
13:01 to even a week.
13:02 And just one last thing to watch out for,
13:04 depending on these results, as I said,
13:06 but during the week, Millet's camp
13:08 did claim there was, quote, "colossal fraud"
13:11 in the first round of voting.
13:13 There are issues surrounding the number of ballot papers
13:16 that Millet has submitted to the voting
13:18 tables across the country.
13:20 So that's just one thing to watch out for if, as is expected,
13:23 the results from today's elections are tight.
13:26 Joe, thank you for that.
13:27 Our correspondent, Joe Richards, in Buenos Aires.
13:31 You're watching CGTN Still Ahead.
13:33 Fact or fiction, cutting edge tech,
13:36 but a rather old-fashioned boardroom row.
13:38 Investor unrest at Open AI is the SAC CEO
13:42 heading for a shock return.
13:44 Ever wondered what's the difference between a bear
13:54 and a bull market?
13:56 Where are the cash cows?
13:59 And who are the lame ducks?
14:02 And what exactly are black swans, grey rhinos,
14:09 and unicorn companies?
14:10 Make sense of it all with Global Business, only on CGTN.
14:18 I think it should be more global cooperation.
14:24 I would like to hear more the voice of the developing
14:29 countries.
14:31 Globalisation has lifted more than a billion people out
14:35 of poverty.
14:36 The green transition has to happen.
14:38 It's a necessity.
14:41 For China and the United States, our important powers
14:46 in the world.
14:47 What unites us is much more than what divides us.
14:52 And I believe China is committed to this agenda.
14:56 Join me, Juliette Mann, to set the agenda at these times
14:59 every weekend on CGTN.
15:01 Events have consequences.
15:09 Words create impact.
15:10 One more offensive in a long line of battles
15:13 that's been ongoing for--
15:15 Just got to be careful here with some gunshots.
15:19 The world today matters.
15:21 For your world tomorrow.
15:23 The number of casualties is growing quickly.
15:25 This is one of the hardest hit towns in the region.
15:29 The world today, every day, on CGTN.
15:33 Hello, welcome back.
15:41 A reminder of our top stories.
15:42 The World Health Organization describes the Al-Shifa Hospital
15:46 in Gaza as a death zone, as the civilian death toll mounts.
15:51 Our other headlines, Argentina sees a nail-biting
15:54 presidential runoff.
15:56 Two candidates with starkly different visions
15:59 amid a crippling economic crisis.
16:04 There are reports of open revolt within some sections
16:07 of the tech startup OpenAI following
16:10 the sacking of the company's high-profile CEO.
16:13 Sam Altman shot to fame after the release of Chas GTP,
16:17 but was dismissed by the board, who
16:19 said he wasn't candid in his communications.
16:22 Microsoft, which has invested $13 million billion
16:25 in OpenAI, is said to be among Altman's supporters,
16:29 pushing for him to return to the company.
16:32 Dan Ives is managing director and a senior equity research
16:36 analyst at Webb Bush Securities.
16:39 Altman is the face of AI, the golden child.
16:42 That's really why Microsoft and others have invested.
16:45 You now had a four-person board on a Friday night,
16:50 to the surprise of everyone.
16:52 Taking Altman out of that position, now he's gone.
16:56 I'd expect that these of this board are numbered.
17:00 And I'd expect Altman could be back at OpenAI by tonight.
17:05 The board say that he wasn't, and I quote,
17:07 "candid in his communications."
17:09 What does that mean in English?
17:11 I think everyone's trying to figure that out.
17:14 I mean, this feels like a board that had a vendetta
17:16 against Altman.
17:18 And that's why it's been such a shock to the tech ecosystem
17:24 and to Wall Street, that Altman was going to be out.
17:27 And remember, Microsoft basically
17:28 heard about this two minutes before.
17:31 So you got Nadella, Microsoft, basically every investor
17:35 that's ever invested in OpenAI, right now
17:39 with a bullseye on the back of this board.
17:42 I believe these board members ultimately
17:45 made a decision that was too hasty, not thought through,
17:49 and now they're going to probably have to pay for it.
17:51 However, do Altman's critics have a point here in the sense
17:54 that many young tech firms--
17:56 and we've reported on them many times--
17:58 inevitably attract geniuses who might be rather less experienced
18:03 when it comes to, how shall I put it, business etiquette?
18:08 Look, I think to your point, that's
18:10 also why you can't have a four-person board in a 501(c)
18:15 at OpenAI with people that have never been on boards before,
18:19 in terms of public boards or how to manage this.
18:22 You need a much more formulated board
18:25 because decisions like this would never have been made.
18:30 And that's the frustration here, is
18:33 that the way this was handled--
18:35 I mean, I've covered tech for almost 25 years.
18:38 I've never seen a train wreck situation like this ever.
18:45 And why does it matter so much?
18:46 I mean, what impact could this, as you describe,
18:49 this train wreck now and this shake-up
18:52 have on the company's future direction and its strategy?
18:56 Well, the biggest worry is that--
18:58 I'll call it the Altman lottery, the sweepstakes.
19:02 Does Amazon get that?
19:04 Does Google, Apple, Elon Musk?
19:08 Altman's the key to the whole thing.
19:11 So the worry is that as Altman leaves,
19:13 developers will all follow.
19:16 And that's really the fundamental issue here,
19:18 is that those four board members created a brush fire
19:24 that they didn't recognize.
19:25 And they can't put out.
19:27 And that's why I think probably by the end of the day,
19:29 those board members will be focused
19:33 on redoing their resume.
19:36 Fears of a major volcanic eruption in Iceland
19:39 are growing.
19:39 Pressure has been building under a small fishing town,
19:42 with a large crack appearing in the ground.
19:45 Residents have been evacuated and lava defenses installed,
19:49 all serving to rekindle memories of that huge eruption
19:53 13 years ago.
19:55 Our correspondent, Johannes Pleschberger, reports.
19:59 Billion dollars of financial damage,
20:02 eight days of interrupted air traffic in Europe.
20:05 Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull outbreak in 2010
20:08 had a severe impact on the world.
20:11 But according to Iceland's Met Office,
20:13 the current volcanic activity is different.
20:16 So this is a different kind of volcano, you may say.
20:20 So the Eyjafjallajökull eruption,
20:23 we had a very explosive eruption.
20:25 And so we had a volcano, a stratovolcano,
20:28 covered by glaciers.
20:29 So here we are looking at a different kind of volcano.
20:33 Unlike that explosive outbreak in 2010,
20:36 the current expected lava flow is
20:38 likely to happen along a 15-kilometer crack, which
20:41 opened up in the village of Grindavik.
20:43 Magma is filling into this tunnel
20:45 and recently rose to about 500 meters below the surface.
20:49 So while there's an inflow of magma into this crack,
20:53 it's quite likely that the lava will reach the surface
20:57 and we will have an eruption.
20:59 But if the lava flow will stop, it
21:01 can stagnate inside this crack and there
21:04 will not be an eruption.
21:07 Although this volcanic activity is
21:09 expected to only have a localized impact for Iceland
21:12 itself, the consequences are serious.
21:15 Almost 4,000 people needed to be evacuated from Grindavik.
21:19 That's around 1% of the country's small population.
21:23 And they might face a very long wait to return.
21:27 Authorities are currently building earth walls
21:30 to contain potential lava flows, although it
21:32 is difficult to predict where along the crack an outbreak
21:35 might occur.
21:37 Meanwhile, the Met Office is in close contact
21:39 with Iceland's only international airport,
21:42 located 20 kilometers from the volcano.
21:44 But for now, the authorities don't expect any consequences
21:48 for air traffic, even if an eruption occurs.
21:51 Jonas Blesberga, CGTN, Reykjavik.
21:54 Three boats carrying more than 500 Rohingya refugees
21:58 have arrived in Western Indonesia.
22:00 They're being held at a temporary shelter,
22:02 awaiting a decision on their future.
22:05 The United Nations says more than 2,000 Rohingya
22:08 attempted the risky voyage to other Southeast Asian countries
22:12 last year.
22:13 Myanmar launched a military crackdown
22:15 against the minority group in 2017.
22:19 China's central bank says it's granted a clearing
22:22 license to a joint venture involving the world's second
22:25 largest payment processing corporation.
22:28 The business has been set up in China by MasterCard and Mets
22:32 Union Clearing.
22:33 The approval means authorized institutions
22:36 can now issue MasterCards that can make payments
22:39 in China's currency, the yuan.
22:42 Australia have just won the final of the Cricket World Cup
22:46 after successfully chasing down India's target at 240.
22:50 The game started with cricket fever running high in India,
22:53 following an impressive tournament from the hosts.
22:56 But Australia's batsmen proved just too strong,
22:58 scoring runs with ease to silence the huge crowd.
23:02 The game was interrupted by a pitch invader wearing a t-shirt
23:06 in support of Palestine.
23:07 Saffron is a much sought after spice all around the world,
23:20 but in particular in Spain, where it provides
23:23 a livelihood for many people.
23:25 But neglect of the crops and climate change
23:28 now threaten a historic culture that's brought people together
23:32 for hundreds of years.
23:34 Our correspondent Ken Brown reports.
23:36 Red gold.
23:43 The crimson threads of these crocus flowers
23:45 create one of the most valuable spices on the planet, saffron.
23:50 A single kilo can fetch over $5,000,
23:53 and for around 20 days each year,
23:55 these purple flowers are harvested by hand
23:58 before they bloom again overnight.
24:00 Used in Spain's world famous paella dish,
24:03 among many others, saffron has brought communities together
24:07 for generations.
24:08 Here, Gregoria Carrasco sits working on the monda,
24:12 removing the red stigmas from the flowers
24:14 with her four daughters.
24:18 It's five daughters, actually.
24:19 One is my daughter-in-law, but I don't care.
24:22 She's adopted now.
24:24 [SPEAKING SPANISH]
24:26 It's made me enormously happy that my children have
24:28 carried on our traditions with saffron
24:30 and kept this culture alive, because this is culture.
24:33 Valentina's wedding was paid with money
24:38 from this, our saffron savings.
24:41 I would be heartbroken if we lost all this.
24:45 Even on a windy, rainy day like today,
24:48 the Cabra Carrasco family is out in the field harvesting.
24:52 And almost the entire process is done by hand.
24:55 These traditions stretch back 1,000 years
24:58 to when Arabic people brought the crocus flower to Spain.
25:02 A century ago, Spain was the biggest producer in the world.
25:05 But neglect and a failure to modernize has left them behind.
25:09 250,000 flowers need to be picked
25:11 to produce just one kilo of saffron,
25:13 and it's backbreaking work.
25:16 Production has plummeted from 140 tons a year a century ago
25:20 to just 450 kilos in 2022.
25:24 And now there's a new and growing threat.
25:29 We're only just hanging on because of climate change.
25:32 Our summers are much longer, temperatures are much higher,
25:35 and it's made it very difficult to cultivate.
25:39 Finding seasonal workers to pick the flowers
25:42 is almost impossible, too.
25:44 And we're in danger of extinction,
25:46 because there's no new generation coming up behind us.
25:48 We're like those who say, "Why can't we find generational relief?"
25:51 But calls for a $20 million strategic plan
25:54 from the regional government of Castilla-La Mancha
25:57 have so far been lost in the wind.
25:59 The Cabra Carrasco family and others like them
26:02 struggle to keep this ancient tradition alive.
26:05 But without big changes,
26:06 the songs of the past could be soon lost forever.
26:10 # Que bonito los campos... #
26:14 Kembran, CGTN, Madrid, Ejos, Toledo.
26:18 And finally, hundreds of hot air balloons
26:20 have taken to the sky in Mexico.
26:22 The International Balloon Festival
26:24 features around 200 unique balloons from 23 countries.
26:29 It's drawn thousands of visitors to the city of Leon.
26:32 People gathered before sunrise as the balloons were inflated
26:36 and watched as they slowly ascended high over the festival site.
26:42 The headlines again.
26:43 The World Health Organisation describes the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
26:47 as a death zone as the civilian death toll mounts.
26:52 Our other headlines.
26:53 Argentina sees a nail-biting presidential run-off.
26:56 Two candidates with starkly differing visions
26:59 amid a crippling economic crisis.
27:02 And reports of open revolts within Open AI
27:05 following the shock-sacking
27:07 of the company's trailblazing chief executive.
27:11 And that is the World Today. Thank you for watching.
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27:23 Coming up next, it's Razor.
27:25 For now, from all of the team in London, it's goodbye.
27:28 [MUSIC PLAYING]
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